Improvement to Notifications (Mobile Push)

I'm currently using the latest version of HipChat Data Center (version 3.1.4). Myself and fellow colleges have been using it about a month now.

Will there be any updated notification improvements for iOS & Android clients in the next release? Most of the users are mobile and use the mobile clients primarily. We have been forced to use aliases and DM's to get peoples attention via email notifications, since there are literally no push notification support. This is what is needed, and what I am asking - push notifications.

Thanks for the reply. Below I've added the output of the log files you requested. I should note though that I do have an Android based phone now I'm doing some testing with. Even when the app is closed, push notifications seem to work with Android (it seems, I will do some more testing and get back to you), but still no push notifications at all with iOS - just emails because I am Away/offline.

It seems like, from the logs, that when the iOS app is not active/on screen it times out(logs shows this)even just hitting the home button will cause this timeout from the client to the server. The Android app however stays connected, even with the app not open - this causes gearman, or some other process to start to send a push notification through barb - the logs show this. The issue seems to be the iOS app. I hope you can see something else that will help find out why iOS push notifications are not working.

I cannot seem to post all of the log files you requested into a textblock. I am given an error upon click post. Can I email them to you? I can also post them online for you, and put the link here?

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This happens when you leave the iOS client running in the background for 150 seconds without reopening it again to keep the connection between the client and server alive.

You may have the question as to why you do not face this problem on the Android client. While the Android client has the Stay Connected feature that retains the connection even when the client is running in the background, it also has the Room Messages option to allow users to be notified for every message that comes in to the room / 1-1 conversations that the user is participating in. iOS does not have these features available on the client, hence the behavior that we are seeing here.

We are keeping track of this in the following Suggestion created in our public issue tracker:

I encourage you to visit the suggestion page linked above and click the Vote and Watch links near the top right to show support for the feature. By doing this, it will ensure you are proactively informed of progress and updates going forward.

Feel free to share your feedbacks as well. You can do this by leaving a comment on the ticket as this helps us prioritize & understand the use case of the feature request.

I hope that helped to provide clarity to the issue that we are discussing here. If you have any other questions, feel free to share them here.

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You are most welcome. Completely understandable. The way iOS is built is different from Android, which explains the absence of this feature. We hope that the dev team will be able to work their way around this and have this implemented soon.

Meanwhile, please let me know if my answer helped and if yes, do accept it as a solution. Thanks!

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